A Most Wanted Man (2014)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg, where he gets caught in the international war on terror.
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Robin Wright, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Homayoun Ershadi
Director: Anton Corbijn
Taste of Cherry / Ta'm e guilass (1997)
Drama
An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
Starring: Homayoun Ershadi
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Ali and Nino (2016)
Drama | Romance
Love story of a Muslim Azerbaijani boy and Christian Georgian girl in Baku from 1918 to 1920.
Starring: María Valverde, Adam Bakri, Mandy Patinkin, Connie Nielsen, Homayoun Ershadi
Director: Asif Kapadia
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The Kite Runner (2007)
Drama
Amir is a young Afghani from a well-to-do Kabul family; his best friend Hassan is the son of a family servant. Together the two boys form a bond of friendship that breaks tragically on one fateful day, when Amir fails to save his friend from brutal neighborhood bullies. Amir and Hassan become separated, and as first the Soviets and then the Taliban seize control of Afghanistan, Amir and his father escape to the United States to pursue a new life. Years later, Amir – now an accomplished author living in San Francisco – is called back to Kabul to right the wrongs he and his father committed years ago.
Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Homayoun Ershadi, Zekiria Ebrahimi, Shaun Toub, Saïd Taghmaoui, Nabi Tanha
Director: Marc Forster, Rebecca Yeldham
